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I just pinch them off with my dirty fingernails. 🤪
Topping is so ancient, it’s not new science lol
Soo… grow it like its cannabis 😂
Well I love basil on our tomato & mozz sandwiches so I am definitely going to use this "trick" and see if I can't get a nice basil bush without the flowers that tell me it's past its prime! Then I can also use the snipped parts in my cooking too!
Yeah, but I don't need that much basil and when it flowers there are always bumblebees in it. Thus when I need some, I cut it at that position, but mostly I let it flowers to make the bees happy and as a result get lots of seeds.
Unless you're letting your basil bolt for your honeybees! 😂
i love basil so i'll try this to make it produce more. i love making pesto and also layering a ton on my homemade pizza 🍕 😊
So what I'm hearing is…
Basil is a hydra
My dad is soing this with an avocado 😂
Reffer does the same 😊
I love growing 💗
I grow lots of vegetable and flower plants . But can never grow a besil😢😢😢😢😢
I LOOOOOOOVE BASIL
I now have an over abundance of basil because of this ❤❤❤
Now teach me how to not kill my thyme please. I just can’t with her 😂😂😂
Question: if you grow it in a pot like you have in the video, will it survive indoors over winter? If I prune one into a fluffy basil like that, how long could it live in the pot realistically? Hopefully forever but I'm no garden god
This is also referred to as HST or high stress training in the cannabis growing community.
my basil always Dies 😢
Did this this year,got lots of basil
Wonderful
So… basil is a hydra?
I had a 6 years old purple mountain basil! It was so big it had bark and the twin trunks were the width of my fingers! So sad it was the only casualty to my hospitalisation in 2024…
I followed your instructions last summer and was amazed by how huge my Basil grew. Thanks
Randomly started growing basil and definitely needed this
Everyone loves a big tasty bush to eat from!
I do this with my weed plant
I had a basil plant like that back in 2022 didn't even know how it got that way it was a judge bush
That was also back when I didn't know Rosemary and oregano were perennials
My basil plants always die. Inside or outdoors😔
This is basic trimming lmfao
We call this topping in the cannabis grow community. Each cut makes the plant bush into 2 more branches, you can make a single plant a bush with this technique it works on many plants.
I've been growing my basil like this for years but I'm lately been just cutting constantly anytime the leaves grow back into a big Lush canopy I cut it back and make pesto that keeps the flowers at bay for a while and by the time it flowers ive got a years worth of pesto, I also grow literally a field of basil …not really just clusters of "basil forests" plant close together dont cut any it grows fine close up once its a chunk and takes the soil over rip it into pieces each chunk has 6-10 plants and thar pushes out a bush out of each chunk
We call this topping , or taking tops in cannabis to produce more main colas for us
Thanks 👍
I tried that too but it ruins the taste
Topping